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&quot;Keep the Aspidistra Flying", first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock&apos;s romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results. Orwell wrote the book in 1934 and 1935, when he was living at various locations near Hampstead in London, and drew on his experiences in these and the preceding few years. At the beginning of 1928 he lived in lodgings in Portobello Road from where he started his tramping expeditions, sleeping rough and roaming the poorer parts of London. At this time he wrote a fragment of a play in which the protagonist Stone needs money for a life-saving operation for his child. Stone would prefer to prostitute his wife rather than prostitute his artistic integrity by writing advertising copy.

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Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker &amp; Warburg as Orwell&apos;s ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.
The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a totalitarian superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employ the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not even exist. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skillful rank-and-file worker and Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters into a forbidden relationship with a colleague, Julia, and starts to remember what life was like before the Party came to power.

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1984 (Unabridged)

&quot;A Clergyman&apos;s Daughter" is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman&apos;s daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an attack of amnesia. It is Orwell&apos;s most formally experimental novel, featuring a chapter written entirely in dramatic form, but he was never satisfied with it and he left instructions that after his death it was not to be reprinted. Despite these instructions, Orwell did consent that to cheap editions «of any book which may bring in a few pounds for my heirs» following his death.

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A Clergyman's Daughter

&quot;The Road to Wigan Pier" is a book by the English writer George Orwell, first published in 1937. The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of the bleak living conditions among the working class in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north of England before World War II. The second half is a long essay on his middle-class upbringing, and the development of his political conscience, questioning British attitudes towards socialism. Orwell states plainly that he himself is in favour of socialism, but feels it necessary to point out reasons why many people who would benefit from socialism, and should logically support it, are in practice likely to be strong opponents.
 
According to Orwell biographer Bernard Crick, publisher Victor Gollancz first tried to persuade Orwell&apos;s agent to allow the Left Book Club edition to consist solely of the descriptive first half of the book. When this was refused Gollancz wrote an introduction to the book. «Victor could not bear to reject it, even though his suggestion that the &apos;repugnant&apos; second half should be omitted from the Club edition was turned down. On this occasion Victor, albeit nervously, did overrule Communist Party objections in favour of his publishing instinct. His compromise was to publish the book with [an introduction] full of good criticism, unfair criticism, and half-truths.»
 
The book grapples «with the social and historical reality of Depression suffering in the north of England,&#160;– Orwell does not wish merely to enumerate evils and injustices, but to break through what he regards as middle-class oblivion,&#160;– Orwell&apos;s corrective to such falsity comes first by immersion of his own body – a supreme measure of truth for Orwell – directly into the experience of misery.»

The Road to Wigan Pier

&quot;Burmese Days" is the first novel by English writer George Orwell, published in 1934. Set in British Burma during the waning days of Empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India, it is «a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj». At the centre of the novel is John Flory, «the lone and lacking individual trapped within a bigger system that is undermining the better side of human nature». The novel describes «both indigenous corruption and imperial bigotry» in a society where, «after all, natives were natives—interesting, no doubt, but finally…an inferior people».
 
&quot;Burmese Days" was first published «further afield», in the United States, because of concerns that it might be potentially libelous; that the real provincial town of Katha had been described too realistically; and that some of its fictional characters were based too closely on identifiable people. A British edition, with altered names, appeared a year later. Nonetheless, Orwell&apos;s harsh portrayal of colonial society was felt by «some old Burma hands» to have «rather let the side down». In a letter from 1946, Orwell wrote, «I dare say it&apos;s unfair in some ways and inaccurate in some details, but much of it is simply reporting what I have seen».

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Burmese Days

&quot;Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel", often published as «1984», is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker &amp; Warburg as Orwell&apos;s ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, «Nineteen Eighty-Four» centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.
 
The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a totalitarian superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employ the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not even exist. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skillful rank-and-file worker and Outer Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters into a forbidden relationship with a colleague, Julia, and starts to remember what life was like before the Party came to power.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

&quot;Coming Up for Air" is the seventh book by English writer George Orwell, published in June 1939 by Victor Gollancz. It was written between 1938 and 1939 while Orwell spent time recuperating from illness in French Morocco, mainly in Marrakesh. He delivered the completed manuscript to Victor Gollancz upon his return to London in March 1939. The story follows George Bowling, a 45-year old husband, father, and insurance salesman, who foresees World War II and attempts to recapture idyllic childhood innocence and escape his dreary life by returning to Lower Binfield, his birthplace. The novel is comical and pessimistic, with its view that speculative builders, commercialism, and capitalism are killing the best of rural England and the existence of new, external threats.

Coming Up for Air

&quot;Fifty Essays" is a collection of 50 essays by George Orwell. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic.
 
Included in this collection:
–&#160;The Spike (1931)
–&#160;A Hanging (1931)
–&#160;Bookshop Memories (1936)
–&#160;Shooting an Elephant (1936)
–&#160;Down the Mine (1937)
–&#160;North and South (1937)
–&#160;Spilling the Spanish Beans (1937)
–&#160;Marrakech (1939)
–&#160;Boys&apos; Weeklies and Frank Richards&apos;s Reply (1940)
–&#160;Charles Dickens (1940)
–&#160;Charles Reade (1940)
–&#160;Inside the Whale (1940)
–&#160;The Art of Donald McGill (1941)
–&#160;The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius (1941)
–&#160;Wells, Hitler and the World State (1941)
–&#160;Looking Back on the Spanish War (1942)
–&#160;Rudyard Kipling (1942)
–&#160;Mark Twain—The Licensed Jester (1943)
–&#160;Poetry and the Microphone (1943)
–&#160;W B Yeats (1943)
–&#160;Arthur Koestler (1944)
–&#160;Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali (1944)
–&#160;Raffles and Miss Blandish (1944)
–&#160;Antisemitism in Britain (1945)
–&#160;Freedom of the Park (1945)
–&#160;Future of a Ruined Germany (1945)
–&#160;Good Bad Books (1945)
–&#160;In Defence Of P. G. Wodehouse (1945)
–&#160;Nonsense Poetry (1945)
–&#160;Notes on Nationalism (1945)
–&#160;Revenge is Sour (1945)
–&#160;The Sporting Spirit (1945)
–&#160;You and the Atomic Bomb (1945)
–&#160;A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray (1946)
–&#160;A Nice Cup of Tea (1946)
–&#160;Books vs. Cigarettes (1946)
–&#160;Confessions of a Book Reviewer (1946)
–&#160;Decline of the English Murder (1946)
–&#160;How the Poor Die (1946)
–&#160;James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution (1946)
–&#160;Pleasure Spots (1946)
–&#160;Politics and the English Language (1946)
–&#160;Politics vs. Literature: an Examination of Gulliver&apos;s Travels (1946)
–&#160;Riding Down from Bangor (1946)
–&#160;Some Thoughts on the Common Toad (1946)
–&#160;The Prevention of Literature (1946)
–&#160;Why I Write (1946)
–&#160;Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool (1947)
–&#160;Such, Such were the Joys (1947)
–&#160;Writers and Leviathan (1948)
–&#160;Reflections on Gandhi (1949)

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Fifty Essays

&quot;The Complete Works" is a collection of the 9 novels and 50 essays by George Orwell.
 
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
 
Novels included in this collection:
–&#160;Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)
–&#160;Burmese Days (1934)
–&#160;A Clergyman&apos;s Daughter (1935)
–&#160;Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)
–&#160;The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
–&#160;Homage to Catalonia (1938)
–&#160;Coming Up for Air (1939)
–&#160;Animal Farm (1945)
–&#160;Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

экономика

гуманитарные и общественные науки

книги по экономике

The Complete Works

&quot;Down and Out in Paris and London" is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities, which was written deliberately in a non-academic tone. Its target audience was the middle and upper class members of society—those who were more likely to be well educated—and exposes the poverty existing in two prosperous cities: Paris and London. The first part is an account of living in near-destitution in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant kitchens. The second part is a travelogue of life on the road in and around London from the tramp&apos;s perspective, with descriptions of the types of hostel accommodation available and some of the characters to be found living on the margins.

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Down and Out in Paris and London

Down and out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. The first part is an account of living in near-destitution in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant kitchens. The second part is a travelogue of life on the road in and around London from the tramp&apos;s perspective, with descriptions of the types of hostel accommodation available and some of the characters to be found living on the margins.

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зарубежная психология

детская психология

воспитание детей

педагогика

развитие ребенка

книги для педагогов

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педагогическая психология

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Down and out in Paris and London (Unabridged)

&quot;Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays" is a collection of 23 essays by George Orwell.
 
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
 
Included in this collection:
–&#160;Why I Write
–&#160;The Spike
–&#160;A Hanging
–&#160;Shooting an Elephant
–&#160;Bookshop Memories
–&#160;Charles Dickens
–&#160;Boys&apos; Weeklies
–&#160;My Country Right or Left
–&#160;Looking Back on the Spanish War
–&#160;In Defence of English Cooking
–&#160;Good Bad Books
–&#160;The Sporting Spirit
–&#160;Nonsense Poetry
–&#160;The Prevention of Literature
–&#160;Books v. Cigarettes
–&#160;Decline of the English Murder
–&#160;Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
–&#160;Confessions of a Book Reviewer
–&#160;Politics v. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver&apos;s Travels
–&#160;How the Poor Die
–&#160;Such, Such Were the Joys
–&#160;Reflections on Gandhi
–&#160;Politics and the English Language

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борьба за выживание

жестокость

иные миры

Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays

&quot;Inside the Whale and Other Essays" is a collection of 9 essays by George Orwell.
 
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
 
Included in this collection:
–&#160;Inside the Whale
–&#160;Down the Mine
–&#160;England Your England
–&#160;Shooting an Elephant
–&#160;Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
–&#160;Politics vs Literature: An Examination of Gulliver&apos;s Travels
–&#160;Politics and the English Language
–&#160;The Prevention of Literature
–&#160;Boys&apos; Weeklies

Inside the Whale and Other Essays

&quot;Homage to Catalonia" is George Orwell&apos;s personal account of his experiences and observations fighting for the POUM militia of the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War. The war was one of the defining events of his political outlook and a significant part of what led him to write in 1946, «Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for Democratic Socialism, as I understand it».
 
The first edition was published in the United Kingdom in 1938. The book was not published in the United States until February 1952, when it appeared with an influential preface by Lionel Trilling. The only translation published in Orwell&apos;s lifetime was into Italian, in December 1948. A French translation by Yvonne Davet—with whom Orwell corresponded, commenting on her translation and providing explanatory notes—in 1938–39, was not published until five years after Orwell&apos;s death.

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Homage to Catalonia

&quot;Animal Farm" is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon.
 
According to Orwell, the fable reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. The Soviet Union had become a brutal dictatorship built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described «Animal Farm» as a satirical tale against Stalin («un conte satirique contre Staline»), and in his essay «Why I Write» (1946), wrote that «Animal Farm» was the first book in which he tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, «to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole».
 
The original title was «Animal Farm: A Fairy Story», but U.S. publishers dropped the subtitle when it was published in 1946, and only one of the translations during Orwell&apos;s lifetime kept it. Other titular variations include subtitles like «A Satire» and «A Contemporary Satire». Orwell suggested the title «Union des républiques socialistes animales» for the French translation, which abbreviates to URSA, the Latin word for bear, a symbol of Russia. It also played on the French name of the Soviet Union, «Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques».

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Animal Farm

&quot;Politics and the English Language and Other Essays" is a collection of 6 essays by George Orwell.
 
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
 
Included in this collection:
–&#160;Politics and the English Language
–&#160;Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver&apos;s Travels
–&#160;The Prevention of Literature
–&#160;Why I Write
–&#160;Writers and Leviathan
–&#160;Poetry and the Microphone

Politics and the English Language and Other Essays

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coalminer.In the mid-1930s, George Orwell was given an assignment from his publisher – to write a book about unemployment and social conditions in the economically depressed north of England. Revolutionary for its time, The Road to Wigan Pier documents Orwell’s stint in towns likes Barnsley, Sheffield and Wigan in 1936, where he met and observed working-class people living in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire.Orwell graphically and emphatically describes the hardships of ordinary people living in cramped slum housing, working in dangerous mines and growing hungry through malnutrition and social injustice. It is an honest, gripping and humane study that also looks at socialism as a solution to the problems facing working-class northerners – something many readers at the time were uncomfortable discussing.The Road to Wigan Pier cemented ideas that would be found in Orwell&apos;s later works, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain to this day.

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